Meet Kaleb Eulls. I know what you’re thinking. Who? I said Kaleb Eulls. Kaleb Eulls is a high school football player from Mississippi. Kaleb Eulls is a son, and a big brother. And, most recently, Kaleb Eulls is a hero.

Eulls and his three younger sisters were among 22 passengers on a school bus bound for Yazoo County High School in western Mississippi until a 14-year old female student boarded the bus armed with a .380 semi-automatic handgun threatening to shoot and ordering the bus driver to pull over.

The senior did something most high school kids can’t do – he kept his cool when under pressure:

“I just tried to talk to her and calm her down,” said the 6-foot-4, 255-pound Eulls. “She was just getting louder and louder. I guess for a quick second she looked out the window and when she did that I just sprung at her. I just knocked her down and got the gun away from her. When I got the gun I ran out the back door and disarmed it.”

Are you kidding me? “…when she did that I just sprang at her.” Dude, you are the MAN! Even the cops were impressed by the kid.

“The (officers) who have been there for a long time told me that they have stared down many barrels before and always felt like it was a big cannon pointing at them,” Eulls said. “It is one scary feeling.”

and Yazoo County Sheriff Tommy Vaughn said:

“If it hadn’t been for this star football player, things could have been different. He didn’t go overboard, but he did exactly what it took to get her on the ground.

“He made the statement to one of my deputies that if she was going to shoot anyone he would rather she shoot him. Watching him do that and him doing such a heroic act and not even caring about his own safety, that’s something you don’t see every day.”

Kaleb, you may not be able to drink, but I raise my glass to you. You are the hero of the day.

SOURCE

Homewtown Hero Kaleb Eulls

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